I Read ‘Growing Up Duggar’: Chapter 8 — Your Relationship with the World

This chapter is all about “developing a servant’s heart” and tells us that they will “never forget the girls in the cage.” They are referencing an orphanage in Central America “several of us Duggars” visited.

At the orphanage, Jana shared her testimony. She asked the kids there if they would go to heaven if they died that night. Most were unsure, probably because it’s a weird-ass question to ask a group of strangers. One girl, wearing a leather jacket and a sullen face, told them she was going to hell. She even walked out and back in during the talk, and the Duggars determine this meant a struggle was happening within her.

Keep in mind that the Duggars don’t mention anyone’s clothes unless they fit into a stereotype. Leather jackets=bad.

Anyway, Jill decided to make a bracelet with this girl. Jill was able to tell her some Bible verses. And apparently that’s the end of that story.

The Duggar girls make a lot of assumptions about the children in the orphanage, saying “aside from Jesus, they had no hope.” So, these girls are painting the children with a broad brush and boasting about bringing them their only source of hope. They also say, “we are often reminded that we may be the first glimpse of Jesus anyone has seen.”